Restrictions on healthcare utilization and psychological distress among patients with diseases potentially vulnerable to COVID-19; the JACSIS 2020 study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with comorbidity are at higher risk of deteriorating COVID-19, but they need to access healthcare services regularly for their primary disease. This study aimed to investigate whether patients restricted healthcare utilization due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand the relations between restriction of healthcare utilization and psychological distress of patients with a disease potentially vulnerable to COVID-19.

Methods

Participants were a sub-sample of 6,360 individuals suffering from chronic diseases with hypertension, diabetes, respiratory diseases, cerebrovascular disease, and cancer from the nationally representative cross-sectional internet survey data of Japan. Participants reported healthcare utilization during the first state of emergency

SUBMITTER: Takeuchi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8843161 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature